Well, I am not going to buy this game anymore, to distrbute the demo through virus or pirate sites is simply horrible, I wasn't even paying attention because I though I could trust links on this site, so I accidently pressed the putlocker virus, my virus program stopped must of it, but I still had to clean a few things with malware bytes.

Now they've made a lot of pre-sales, it is unacceptable in my opinion to use virus and pirate sites for hosting the demo.

Putlocker is not a pirate site, it's just another public cloud service, or let's be practical and describe it as a megaupload clone. Many of such sites are now dead because pirates use those services more than p2p (ed2k, gnutella, torrent, etc).

The problem with all those sites is that advertisments point to malware. Iron tower is not to blame for it, you just have to be careful not to click on anything except the file you really want to download. But if they couldn't host the demo on their own site because of the size or something, to avoid malware they could have seeded it as a torrent magnet link.

First of all, my apologies for the inconvenience. The link has been removed. In general, torrent and public cloud sites are very safe, but only if you know what you're doing (like not downloading … exe.exe files). Clearly, some people have less experience with such sites and can be easily misled, which wasn't our intention at all.

Also, the demo is available on Steam as well, so the other links are alternatives for those who prefer direct downloads.

Personal network storage sites are not safe unless you're a paying customer so you don't see those advertisments.
If you're accessing them as a guest, usually there are several huge "download" buttons trying to con you into downloading at least ilivid malware (IIRC that's the name). It's not nearly as bad as Origin traybar lurking malware, but still…
As I've said, it's not your fault but the service provider has to be blamed.

Anyway, if you do the alternative demo distribution again, I suggest using a torrent magnet, that way you're sure noone will click on an unwanted link.

O well, maybe I overeacted a bit… but the demo better be darn good to compensate

Still it could be disaster for someone without a good virus program or who doesn't know how to clean up those nasty viruses and malware, and it is very easy in a moment of relaxation from a site you trust to accidently click at the wrong place, it is acctually the first time it happend to me.

Originally Posted by zahratustra
Just download MSVCR110.dll and drop it in the demo's main directory (where other .dlls are) and in Windows/System32 folder if it's not there.

Woah, woah, woah! What is this, the 80s? Am I supposed to be computer literate or something? I demand effortless accessibility! I'm not a windows user because I want to learn to use a computer, you know! Just tweet me the link to like on facebook so I can youtube it to get the itunes link saved on my phone.

Seriously, though… Is everybody expected to go chasing dll files themselves or is there a problem with the installer that I'm ever so helpfully bringing to light. Not saying I deserve a reward or nothin, but the suggestion is hard to dismiss…

Was anybody successful in playing this demo? I have similar problem to SirJames: after installation it first tells me that msvcr110.dll is missing, than that msvcp110.dll is also not there and, finnally, that it's unable to load AoD.dll…

Originally Posted by zahratustra
Was anybody successful in playing this demo? I have similar problem to SirJames: after installation it first tells me that msvcr110.dll is missing, than that msvcp110.dll is also not there and, finnally, that it's unable to load AoD.dll…

Originally Posted by SirJames
Woah, woah, woah! What is this, the 80s? Am I supposed to be computer literate or something? I demand effortless accessibility! I'm not a windows user because I want to learn to use a computer, you know! Just tweet me the link to like on facebook so I can youtube it to get the itunes link saved on my phone.

Seriously, though… Is everybody expected to go chasing dll files themselves or is there a problem with the installer that I'm ever so helpfully bringing to light. Not saying I deserve a reward or nothin, but the suggestion is hard to dismiss…

-The information would be better reported on the adequate site.
-The information is already reported on the adequate site.
-Trying the suggested fix might allow to play the demo.